English

Contraction

'tis

1. (literary or archaic, also occasionally colloquial) it is.

   ’Tis the season to be jolly. — Popular Christmas song ("Deck the Halls").

   ’Tis good ta’ ’ave ya back boy! (to have you)

   ’Tis a shame!

   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 1:

     Mercutio [wounded]: "No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man."

   • 1844, Charles Dickens, The Chimes, Chapter III:

     It looks well in a picter, I've heerd say; but there an't weather in picters, and maybe 'tis fitter for that, than for a place to live in.

See also

• it’s
• ’t
• ’twas
• ’twere

Anagrams

• IST
• its, it’s
• sit
• STI